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	<description>Where tech is more than just the breaking news</description>
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		<title>Who gains the most from your lifestream?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Lifestreaming&#8221; was all the rage several years ago. Services like Jaiku, Second&#124;Brain and FriendFeed cropped up and allowed people to centralise notifications of their online activities.
Harnessing the technology of Application Programming Interfaces (or APIs) from various web services, it became possible to alert people when you uploaded a photo to Flickr, favourited a video on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://techwhimsy.com/who-gains-the-most-from-your-lifestream</link>
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		<title>Thoughts on the iPad</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is mainly just to get ideas out of my brain and onto a page somewhere for my future reference. It&#8217;s this or talk to my wife about it and at least on the internet I can pretend I can&#8217;t see your eyes glaze over 30 seconds into the conversation.
A new Apple product stirs up [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://techwhimsy.com/thoughts-on-the-ipad</link>
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		<title>I love typography</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
I have a love/hate relationship with typography.
I love how good a well designed font looks on the page or on the screen. I love how the spaces between letters mean as much as the letters themselves. I love how simple lines, artfully connected, transform graphics to glyphs, transporting language across time and space. I love [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://techwhimsy.com/i-love-typography</link>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t blame technology for your lack of self-control</title>
		<description><![CDATA[News sites. RSS feeds. Email. Microblogging. Social networks. BitTorrent. iView (or Hulu or BBC iPlayer). Time sinks, each and every one of them, providing as much or as little value to your daily existence as you are prepared to let them.
“Information overload” is a fantasy, an illusion, and deep down inside you know it, too.
Crying [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://techwhimsy.com/dont-blame-technology-for-your-lack-of-self-control</link>
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		<title>Common platforms are a good thing. Right?</title>
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Adobe AIR for Linux beta released (labs.adobe.com)
I can see the attraction of developing from a known baseline that is guaranteed to work, look and feel exactly the same across different platforms. One set of bugs to fix, one set of UI changes to make, only one lot of updates to push live. Less development time [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://techwhimsy.com/common-platforms-are-a-good-thing-right</link>
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		<title>Review: Bigpond Music DRM-free mp3s</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(Note: all prices in this post refer to Australian dollars)
(Note 2: This review has taken nearly a month from purchase to publication. Some features may have changed in the meantime that I wasn&#8217;t aware of. If that is the case please feel free to let me know in the comments)
While US residents have had access [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://techwhimsy.com/review-bigpond-music-drm-free-mp3s</link>
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		<title>Why digital TV adoption rates are low in Australia</title>
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(Update at the bottom of the post)
The analogue TV signal in Australia will be switched off by 2013. This means that everyone without a digital tuner will suddenly find themselves free of broadcast television.  The date for the switch over has been shifted several times as politicians remained convinced that the digital TV (DTV) adoption [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://techwhimsy.com/why-digital-tv-adoption-rates-are-low-in-australia</link>
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		<title>Do I really want my attention managed?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[With information overload comes a desire to manage time and increasingly managing attention as well.
Untethered technology gives us the freedom to do nearly anything, anytime, anywhere. It can also enslave us &#8211; we feel compelled to use it where ever it is. Technology is neutral. How, when and where we use it is up to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://techwhimsy.com/do-i-really-want-my-attention-managed</link>
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		<title>On information overload</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Over the last few months I have witnessed a steadily growing stream of writers declaring news feed, blogging and/or social media bankruptcy, citing such things as information overload, hobbies becoming &#8216;work&#8217; or even the fact that so many people on the internet can be jerks about such small things.  Maybe you&#8217;re like Sarah Perez [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://techwhimsy.com/on-information-overload</link>
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		<title>Are Google Reader shared items the new del.icio.us?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Since its debut in 2004, del.icio.us has been the market standard for social bookmarks.  Its reputation was further enhanced in late 2005 when it was acquired by Yahoo!.  Social bookmarking was going places.  It wasn&#8217;t that long ago that every second blog (particularly in the tech niches) had some type of del.icio.us widget in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://techwhimsy.com/are-google-reader-shared-items-the-new-delicious</link>
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